My Bookhouse: My Travelship
Katharine Sturgis, Illustrator
Little Pictures of Japan
Miller, Olive BeaupreBook Description: Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1925, 1st printing., 1925. Oversize, royal purple textured boards with bright round color cover label and gilt titles to cover and spine.Highly decorative end-papers. 191 pages and many color illustrations by Katharine Sturges.
Little Pictures of Japan
Miller, Olive BeaupreBook Description: Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1925, 1st printing., 1925. Oversize, royal purple textured boards with bright round color cover label and gilt titles to cover and spine.Highly decorative end-papers. 191 pages and many color illustrations by Katharine Sturges.
COPY 1: This is a rare and beautiful copy.Bright as the day itr was made. No imperfections. Inventory # 7663 Price $120.00
COPY 2: (Image not shown) Some slight bumping to spine ends and corners. Cover image shows not as bright. Interior fine in all respects. Inventiory # 7664 Price $75.00
Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Nursery Friends From France
Chicago: My Bookhouse, 1927. 191 pages, endpapers illustrated with map of France, Covers in grayblue with paste-up of a drawing based on a painting by Francois Drouais hanging in the Louvre. These are among the best of the Petershams' illustrations. Poems and songs translated into English from the original French, all of them over 100 years old, about shepherdesses, peasants and princes, villagers and sailors, lawyers and millers, carpenters, duchesses and beggars, soldiers and thatched roofs, Gothic church spires, and flowery meadows. . Tips and spine ends slightly rubbed. Decorative endpapers and book interior are very good. Pages have age-toning. with some browning . Otherwise interior unmarked, un-marred. Inventory # 7666 Price $75.00
Nursery Friends From France
Chicago: My Bookhouse, 1927. 191 pages, endpapers illustrated with map of France, Covers in grayblue with paste-up of a drawing based on a painting by Francois Drouais hanging in the Louvre. These are among the best of the Petershams' illustrations. Poems and songs translated into English from the original French, all of them over 100 years old, about shepherdesses, peasants and princes, villagers and sailors, lawyers and millers, carpenters, duchesses and beggars, soldiers and thatched roofs, Gothic church spires, and flowery meadows. . Tips and spine ends slightly rubbed. Decorative endpapers and book interior are very good. Pages have age-toning. with some browning . Otherwise interior unmarked, un-marred. Inventory # 7666 Price $75.00
Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Olive Beauore Miller, editor
Tales Told in Holland
Chicago: Bookhouse For Children: 1948 reprint.. 4to (8X11 in) 191 pps. Red cloth boards with pasted circular inset. Gold stamped titles. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the great Petershams.
Olive Beauore Miller, editor
Tales Told in Holland
Chicago: Bookhouse For Children: 1948 reprint.. 4to (8X11 in) 191 pps. Red cloth boards with pasted circular inset. Gold stamped titles. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the great Petershams.
COPY 1: Bottom corner bumped, spine ends very slightly work. Covers and interior bright. No dust jacket, as issued. A Fine Copy Inventory # 7643 Price $60.00.
.COPY 2: Edges and tips rubbed. First gathering detached. Cover image scratched. Owner name on Pastedown,. Interior bright and unmarked. No dust jacket, as issued. Very Good.Inventory# 506 Price $35.00
